Product Updates

New Drop: Skyvern x Activepieces

Trumpets, please! We’re excited to share that Skyvern is now officially an integration in Activepieces! Activepieces is an open-source business automation platform that lets teams build powerful workflows using over 300 integrations. Why Integrate into Activepieces? Activepieces users love flexibility and power—and they’ve been finding ways

Engineering & Research

How Skyvern Reads and Understands the Web

Learn how AI browser automation uses LLMs and computer vision to create reliable web automation that adapts to website changes, replacing fragile XPath scripts.

Company News

Why Open Source SaaS?

Founders who want 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 are doubling down on open-source AI stacks. Here are 8 open-source AI tools launched or majorly upgraded in 2023–24 that can supercharge your business — across product, ops, marketing, and dev — without locking you into anyone’s platform. 👇 1. Llama 2 (Meta): Industry-grade LLM,

Company News

Startup Story: How we got our first 4 customers

Back at the end of 2023, we were pivoting and were trying to figure out what idea to work on. The idea space is massive, but we knew we wanted to focus on a hard technical problem to solve. We are technical founders, and we were pretty confident in our

Product Updates

Surprise Launch Week - Day 5 - Product Hunt Launch

Another day another surprise! A short one today: Web bench is live on Product Hunt. We would love your support here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/web-bench

Product Updates

Surprise Launch Week - Day 4 - Ollama Support

TL;DR One toggle → your automations run on-device, no cloud hop. # .env ENABLE_OLLAMA=true LLM_KEY=OLLAMA OLLAMA_MODEL=qwen2.5:7b-instruct OLLAMA_SERVER_URL=http://host.docker.internal:11434 Why you’ll care * Zero data leaves the box – ideal for air-gapped or PII-heavy flows,

Product Updates

Surprise Launch week – Day 3 - LangChain + LlamaIndex support is here!

Today we’re releasing two small Python packages that let you trigger Skyvern browser tasks directly from LangChain or LlamaIndex code. * skyvern-langchain – LangChain Tool + Agent helpers * skyvern-llamaindex – LlamaIndex Tool + Runnable helpers Both follow the same pattern: create a task, wait for it if you like, or hand it

Product Updates

Surprise Launch Week - Day 2 - OpenRouter Support is Live in Skyvern

TL;DR Plug any OpenRouter-hosted model into your automations with one env toggle. No code changes, no redeploys. # docker-compose.env ENABLE_OPENROUTER=true LLM_KEY=OPENROUTER OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-… OPENROUTER_MODEL=qwen/qwen2.5-vl-32b-instruct Why you might care * BYOM (Bring your own model) – swap

Product Updates

Surprise Launch Week - Day 1 - Credit Card Support

Today we’re launching a major super-power for your browser automations: securely add credit cards once and let Skyvern handle checkouts end-to-end Why this matters * One-click setup – Save a card in seconds; via API or via our UI. Skyvern stores it inside a secure vault. * Hands-

Engineering & Research Featured

Web Bench - A new way to compare AI Browser Agents

TL;DR: Web Bench is a new dataset to evaluate web browsing agents that consists of 5,750 tasks on 452 different websites, with 2,454 tasks being open sourced. Anthropic Sonnet 3.7 CUA is the current SOTA, with the detailed results here. Over the past few months, Web

Business Operations Automation

How To Automate Anything In Your Browser Without Code (Updated July 2026)

If you're still copying data from one tab to another or downloading reports by hand, you're giving away hours you'll never get back. Modern AI browser agents, like the open-source platform Skyvern, let you hand off those chores without writing a single line

Company News

Startup Learnings: Nirvana Fallacy

Here's O3's definition: Nirvana fallacy: rejecting a workable solution because it isn’t perfect—an easy way to stall real progress while chasing an imaginary ideal. This is a common pitfall that engineers like me run into "But it won't work in this

Business Operations Automation

8 Browser Automation Workflows to Run with Skyvern July 2026

Some business-critical chores still hide behind login screens, pop-ups, and "Download" buttons that no API can reach. Skyvern's AI browser agent bridges that gap. Give it a plain-English description of the job, and it sees the page like a human, decides where to

Company News

13K Github stars and why star count isn't our primary metric

⭐ We hit 13K GITHUB STARS!!! What a big milestone!! But.. what if we told you that we stopped tracking star count as a top line metric 6 months ago? Star count is similar to user signups. It's a vanity metric. It's a great metric that'

Browser Automation

Why MCP is a big deal

I've seen a lot of skepticism around MCP on the internet. I'm here to convince you everyone is wrong MCP is real and valuable. It's an extremely simple protocol – it's an API spec that tells an LLM how to use a tool.

Company News

Launch checklist (in case you're thinking about launching)

Learn about the tips and tricks the Skyvern team uses to launch new features across many different social media channels

Product Updates

Skyvern MCP Server: Let AI Agents Control Your Browser (Updated June 2026)

We're building Skyvern, an open-source Agentic Process Automation (APA) platform. It uses computer vision and AI reasoning to read web pages visually, work through multi-step authentication flows, and complete browser-side tasks without brittle selectors or code that breaks the moment a site changes. Browser automation

Company News

10 Insights from YC's Open Source conference

Got invited to a private YC Open Source conferences last week Here are my top 10 takeaways from it! 1 - The old age of open source (pre-2015) was crazy 2 - Apparently it was normal to donate your open source project to the Apache organization? 3 - There are big differences

Product Updates

New Drop: Skyvern x N8N

Gather ‘round! Our integration in n8n (community node) is finally here! n8n is a workflow automation platform that empowers technical teams to build complex, multi-step workflows using their 400+ native integrations, with an even richer community node ecosystem Why Integrate into n8n? Is it fate? Is it science? Don’

Browser Automation

How AI Agents Navigate Old Websites

You've probably dealt with those outdated websites or really clunky online portals and  you know how frustrating they can be. Maybe you’ve had to log into a government site with a somewhat ancient interface, submit a job application through a very slow, multi-step process, or extract

Company News

Shipping Fast and Furiously

How do you know you built something people wanted? When you get users start using it and complaining before you even have a chance to announce its launch This has happened at Skyvern many times... but the most recent is the most fascinating We secretly launched support for credentials almost

Product Updates

A Major Update - Credentialing in Skyvern

🗣️ You can now store credentials directly in Skyvern! Until now, the only way to manage credentials was through Bitwarden. Time and time again, we heard the same feedback—signing up, onboarding, and configuring was was annoyingly high maintenance. With this release, you can now add, save, and link credentials into

Company News

Skyvern's first autonomous order

Hit a major Skyvern milestone Skyvern finished its first autonomous order. End to End. This wasn't a demonstration -- this was a real order being placed to automate something very core to a business we've been working closely with Here are all of the steps it has

Browser Automation

Error Handling in Browser Automation (Updated June 2026)

I don't think we can deny the fact that automation has changed how we approach repetitive tasks by saving time and eliminating the monotony of manual work. However, when automating tasks in browsers, errors can quickly become somewhat of a roadblock. From stuff like page timeouts to CAPTCHA

Company News

Huge milestone alert: 🌟 12K GITHUB STARS 🌟

🌟 TWELVE THOUSAND 🌟 Here are some interesting star milestone facts 1. Going from 0 - 5K took as long as going from 5K - 12K 2. We stopped looking at star count as a top line metric when we launched Skyvern Cloud 3. Star count is not correlated with our discord user growth